
If Terminal tells you the version number, then you're good to go. To check if you have homebrew installed, you can run brew -v. Search for driver and change the value to imagick

Installing ImageMagick LocallyĮven if you're comfortable getting ImageMagick installed on your production server, installing locally will likely be a different process. For most cases, this will probably be an OK default, but from my experience using ImageMagick as alternative image processing software generates far superior images-especially with larger, more noticeable images. You may be wondering “Why would I want to do this?” By default, like most CMS’s, Statamic generates images using software called “GD” (Graphics Draw).


As part of my Statamic series, this post covers installing ImageMagick locally to process images, to get superior image quality on your sites.
